Belle and Sebastian - If She Wants Me
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Song: If She Wants Me
Artist: Belle and Sebastian
Album: Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Why This Song?: Since it’s such a beautiful spring day here in America (sorry Stickel), I just felt like having a SOTW that just wreaks of springtime goodness. This song reminds me of blooming flowers, clean, crisp air, and cool spring nights.
I know that some people may be mad that this song is in the company with my other “mainstream” song of the weeks. I apologize if I made this band instantly uncool because I am the one recommending it. To all the indy purists, I apologize. As if that wasn’t bad enough, you might want to run for the hills and cry in your decaf mocha latté frappicino, I heard them talking about Broken Social Scene on MTV. For my part, I’m sorry I had to contribute to your world crumbling down.
Moving on. I am not a huge fan of Stuart Murdoch’s voice, actually not so much his voice, but the way he says his s’s. It is such a pronounced s, and I can deal with it at first, but I can’t make it through a whole album on one sitting.
However, the musicianship is high quality and the sound is just so catchy, chipper, and cheerful sounding it is difficult not to enjoy this song. It is such a head-bobbing and foot-slapping little diddy that it hardly seems that it’s a five minute plus song.
I really enjoy Belle and Sebastian’s lyrics. This song is a very nice lyrical piece and has a really good chorus. Like I said, the only problem I have with Belle and Sebastian is not the music or lyrics at all, it’s just the damn s’s.
If you are a fan of the indy-alt-pop style music, then I’m sure you already heard of these guys and I’m just “jumping on the bandwagon.” If you haven’t, please realize this music isn’t for everyone, and that’s just how the indy fans like it. If you haven’t given these guys a chance yet, give it a listen and it might just be your cup of decaf mocha latté frappicino.
Yes, I know I’m a stereotypical #$*## that speaks in sweeping generalizations and takes pot-shots at indy fans, goths, and pretty much any hypocritical trend that prides itself on a misguided sense of individuality. With that being said, let the hate-mail commence.
Force Spotlight to reindex a volume without using Terminal
Are you scared of the command line? Or, are simply not familiar enough with it to want to go mucking around with your system? You are not alone. Here is a quick tip, that a few well tailored Google searches would have told you, but we thought we’d jot it down for you.
Have you recently added a huge chunk of data to your system? Perhaps you’ve just dragged a few hundred megabytes worth of documents from an old system, or even imported a photo library from another computer. Now, you’d like to use the power of Spotlight to search those new files, yet it appears that Spotlight has yet to index that new data and you are frustrated because you need to find a specific file quickly.
Fear not young Terminal padawan, this quick tip could help you out. You can force Spotlight to reindex any, or all, volumes on your system without ever touching Terminal. Here are the steps you need to take to do this.
- Open Spotlight Preferences
- In the privacy tab, add the volume you want to reindex
- After a few moments, remove that volume from the privacy list
- Allow Spotlight to reindex the volume
Depending on the size of the volume, whether or not that volume is compressed, or perhaps the size of each individual file, Spotlight could take quite awhile to reindex the entire volume. Reindexing an entire volume may not be the best course for everyone, perhaps you only need to reindex a single folder. You can do this by instead just adding that single directory to your privacy list, rather than the entire volume.
Essentially what this does, is it literally deletes Spotlights index file for that specific volume/directory. Once you remove that volume/directory from the privacy list, Spotlight is forced to recreate that index file. It is a simple workaround, yet effective.
I’m busy as a bee trying to associate keywords to my photos in iPhoto, and sometimes Spotlight doesn’t index quick enough for me, so I use this procedure to quickly index my iPhoto library so that I can search my photos efficiently.
Hope this helps you the next time you really need to find something.
Safari text fields now editable
Over at the Surfin’ Safari blog Adele posted this little bit about CSS format-able text fields in Safari. Let’s only hope these changes make it into a full release.
Paul Scrivens is a punk
You thought Paul could dance? Pfft.. Check it.
Outsourced support
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Veoh, an alternative to YouTube
YouTube hit it big time, no doubt about that. Everyone loves it, but it could be much better, and that my friends, is exactly what Veoh is.
Veoh is a pretty good alternative to YouTube, it nails the basic things the popular service lacks. First off, the design is nicer, and one thing you will notice as you start using it, is how fast it is. YouTube happens to be really slow, for whatever reason, and it’s one of the most annoying things. And it’s the same with Google Video, surprisingly, the download speeds aren’t great even fro Google. Besides the speed issue, one of the things i wish YouTube (YT from now on) did, is let me download the videos in a decent and compatible format. There are a few websites out there which let you download the videos from YT but you get an flv file which is a pain to open and play. In Veoh you get the videos in either avi, mov or mp4, a format for your ipod, computer or psp. However in Veoh, you can’t watch a complete video without downloading it, unlike YT. You do have a fair preview, and this would suck if they didn’t provide a download manager for Windows and Mac, but they do. Yes, you can install a Veoh client on your computer, which will sync and download your queued videos from the website. When you’re browsing videos, you can watch the preview and if you want to download it, you just click a button and it’s added to your queue. Sweet.
Maybe the community isn’t as big as YouTube’s, but it can only keep growing, and there’s already a huge database of videos. As far as the rest of the stuff goes, it’s pretty much equal to YT. Comments on videos, popular ones, highest rated, etc etc.. And you are able to upload as many videos as you want, not to mention you might win something when you upload or invite friends.
Overall, Veoh has replaced YouTube for me, it has a lot of good things going for it, just give it a try.
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